Medical Pump, Method of Controlling Medical Pump, and Medical Pump System

2. The medical pump according to claim 1, wherein when the drug identification information stored in the storage unit about the drug in the first drug storage container does not match the drug identification information read by the reader about the drug in the second drug storage container, the control unit further causes the medical pump to be brought into a liquid feeding prohibition mode in which the medical pump is prohibited from feeding the drug in the second drug storage container when the second drug storage container is received in the housing.

3. The medical pump according to claim 1, wherein when the reader reads the drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container, the control unit causes the storage unit to store the read drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container in the storage unit.

4. The medical pump according to claim 1, wherein the reader; i) reads the drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container from a communication device on the first drug storage container; and reads the drug identification information about the drug in the second drug storage container from a communication device on the second drug storage container.

5. The medical pump according to claim 4, wherein when the reader cannot read the drug identification information about the drug in the second drug storage container from the communication device on the second drug storage container and the drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container is determined to be stored in the storage unit, the control unit causes the notification unit to notify of non-recognition of the drug identification information about the drug in the second drug storage container.

7. The medical pump according to claim 6, wherein when the first syringe drug identification information stored in the storage unit does not match the second syringe drug identification information read anew by the reader, the control unit further causes the medical pump to be brought into a liquid feeding prohibition mode in which feeding of the drug in the second syringe by the medical pump is prohibited .

8. The medical pump according to claim 7, wherein the control unit further causes the medical pump, when in the liquid feeding prohibition mode, to be brought into a liquid feeding permission mode, when a setting of the medical pump is manually changed by a user, in which feeding of the drug in the second syringe by the medical pump is permitted.

9. The medical pump according to claim 6, wherein the notification unit is a display that notifies of the matching and/or the non-matching by a notification on the display.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the second drug storage container is mounted on the medical pump during the comparing of the drug identification information stored in the storage unit about the drug in the first drug storage container with the drug identification information read by the reader about the drug in the second drug storage container, the method further comprising prohibiting the medical pump from expelling drug in the second drug storage container when the drug identification information stored in the storage unit about the drug in the first drug storage container does not match the drug identification information read by the reader about the drug in the second drug storage container.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the second drug storage container mounted on the medical pump comprises a syringe body and a syringe plunger movably positioned in the syringe body, and wherein the prohibiting of the medical pump from expelling drug in the one syringe comprises prohibiting the plunger from being moved forward in the syringe body.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein following the medical pump being prohibited from expelling drug in the second drug storage container, permitting the medical pump to expel the drug in the second drug storage container when a setting of the medical pump is manually changed by a user.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the notifying includes notifying on a display.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein when the reader reads the drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container while the first drug storage container is received in the housing, the control unit causes the storage unit to store the read drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container in the storage unit.

16. The method according to claim 10, wherein the drug identification information read by the reader about the drug in the second drug storage container is read while the second drug storage container is received in the housing off the medical pump.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising notifying of non-recognition of the drug identification information about the drug in the second drug storage container when the reader cannot read the drug identification information about the drug in the second drug storage container from the second drug storage container received in the housing while the drug identification information about the drug in the first drug storage container is determined to be stored in the storage unit.

20. The medical pump system according to claim 19, wherein when the first drug identification information stored in the storage unit does not match the second drug identification information read by the reader, the control unit causes the medical pump to be brought into a liquid feeding prohibition mode in which feeding of the drug in the second syringe by the medical pump is prohibited.